On 29.5.2005, at 20:29, Nicolas STRANSKY wrote:
The mount options for the /var partition are just default ones: /dev/sda6 on /var type ext3 (rw)
OK.. What configure options did you use while compiling Dovecot?
Any difference if you set "login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login" in dovecot.conf?
But /home and /var/mail are mounted over NFSv4: vert.adm.crans.org:/home on /home type nfs4 (rw,addr=138.231.144.2) vert.adm.crans.org:/var/spool/mail on /var/mail type nfs4 (rw,addr=138.231.144.2)
It seems that you have Dovecot indexes stored on NFS disk, thus you should have "mmap_disable = yes" in dovecot.conf. This won't help with your current problem though.
I would recommend that you try Dovecot 1.0-test72, it includes lots of fixes over 1.0-stable and I'd say that it has gone through a quite extensive testing on Linux platform during last couple weeks.
-- Tomi Hakala